From Mine to the African Market: Enhancing Value through Local Mineral Chains

Boston Metal Develops Innovative Process to Decarbonize Steelmaking

Vale Base Metals is committing $10 billion for investment in Indonesia over the next decade to capture demand for metals such as nickel and copper for electric vehicle production, its chief executive said on Thursday.

A comparison of shipments year-to-date in 2023 to the first seven months of 2022 shows the following changes: hot rolled sheet, up 4 percent, cold rolled sheet, down 1 percent and corrosion resistant sheet, down 2 percent.

Finished Import Market Share Estimated at 21 Percent in August.

Indonesia has asked the United States to begin talks on a trade deal for critical minerals so that exports from the Southeast Asian country can be covered under the US Inflation Reduction Act, an Indonesian ministry said on Thursday.

Vale Base Metals has committed nearly $9-billion for investment in Indonesia, including for its development of high-pressure acid leaching (HPAL) plants for nickel, chief executive Deshnee Naidoo said on Thursday.

Liberty Steel is closing one of the three ovens at its Ostrava site in Czechia and there is a growing expectation that the company may idle its last two operational blast furnaces in Europe in the coming months.